Torrey Pines teen sentenced in fatal DUI crash

A Torrey Pines High School student who pleaded guilty last month to gross vehicular manslaughter in connection with a crash that killed a 17-year-old passenger was sentenced Thursday to spend up to 547 days in a juvenile detention camp.

Judge George “Woody” Clarke ordered the teen, who has been in custody since the Oct. 4 crash, to serve the sentence at Camp Barrett in East County. The crash occurred at 1:45 a.m. on a winding road in Rancho Santa Fe.

The teen had been drinking at a party before the single-car crash, and he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.10 when he was tested about 2½ hours after the crash.

A prosecutor said the teen’s blood alcohol level at the time of the crash probably was 0.13 or 0.14, the equivalent of eight or nine alcoholic drinks in a 3½ hour period.

Alex Capozza, one of four passengers in the car, was killed, and another passenger was injured.